Story of Christianity: Volume 1 (Story of Christianity, #1)
by Justo L. Gonzalez
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Shambhala Pocket Library)
by George Long
Classic teachings on the art of living by the great Roman emperor, statesman, and general. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius originally wrote the meditations collected here in the form of a personal journal during his military campaigns in the second century. In them, he reflects with great beauty and simplicity upon the Stoic virtues that lead to a happy life: self-mastery, moral strength, duty to oneself and others, detachment, and acceptance of the divine order and the way of Nature. His wor...
Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers's nearly 600-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of meditation and tantra and provides a survey of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
A thirty-day devotional filled with inspiring and challenging stories of faith in the face of persecution. Provides a touch-point for readers' prayers and reminds them of the urgent needs of the suffering church in countries hostile to the Gospel.
What blocks spiritual progress? And how do we transcend these blocks? The spiritual teachings of David R. Hawkins PhD, on the nature of consciousness, spirit and ego are known worldwide by students seeking to realise spiritual Truth. As a mystic, Dr Hawkins has infused the truths found in the precepts of Western religion with the core of Eastern philosophy, bridging the familiar, physical world to the non-linear, spiritual domain. This collection of passages, care...
Embodiment
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred...
The Art of Pausing
by Judith Valente, Brother Paul Quenon, and Michael Bever